Israeli Army Suffers More Casualties As Hamas Publishes Video Showing Tanks Blown Up
The Israeli death toll is rising, and Hamas has claimed to have ambushed and destroyed several tanks as they plunge deeper into Gaza City, also amid building to building searches for the hostages.
15 Israeli soldiers have now been killed in the Gaza operation, the IDF has announced Wednesday, which in total marks 320 total troops killed since the Oct. 7th massacre (and with over 1,100 more Israeli and foreign civilians).
Hamas military wing publish scenes showing its members blowing up several Israeli tanks and vehicles south Zaitoun Neighborhood, Gaza city. pic.twitter.com/j2kslyqSv1
— Younis Tirawi | يونس (@ytirawi) November 1, 2023
Widely circulating footage shows Knesset members crying after a closed-door session (below), leading to speculation that Israeli troops could be sustaining higher than known casualty rates.
But the emotional scene is reportedly due to a special viewing in parliament of newly compiled footage of the October 7 terror attacks, as The Times of Israel details:
A compilation of raw footage documenting Hamas’s grisly October 7 rampage through the western Negev was screened Wednesday for Knesset members. The 43-minute-long video was produced by the IDF Spokesperson’s Office and shows uncensored, difficult-to-watch videos, many taken from terrorists’ bodycams.
After a request from Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana to the military, lawmakers were granted permission to hold a closed-door screening of the footage where recording and cellphones were not allowed.
Ohana, speaking before the screening, said that he had arranged the event so that Israeli lawmakers would “know who and what we are facing,” and so that “we will all know how much our path in this war against this evil is justified,” according to sources familiar with the event.
…More than 50 MKs were in attendance, and some broke down in tears, including Ra’am head Mansour Abbas, the Maariv news outlet reported.
Hamas military wing publish scenes showing its members blowing up several Israeli tanks and vehicles south Zaitoun Neighborhood, Gaza city. pic.twitter.com/j2kslyqSv1
— Younis Tirawi | يونس (@ytirawi) November 1, 2023
The Israel Defence Forces have said they are in close quarters combat with Hamas as troops push further into Gaza, resulting in an announced Tuesday death toll of eleven. By early Wednesday, that figure rose to 13 Israeli soldiers killed after Israel’s defence minister warned of the “heavy toll” that would be paid by troops in the operation to eradicate Hamas.
As the death toll among Gazans approaches 9,000, the EU’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, has lashed out at Israel’s airstrikes and massive civilian casualties. Borrel says he is “appalled by the high number of casualties following the bombing by Israel of the Jabalia refugee camp.” Jabalia camp has reportedly been struck again, a day after the initial massive attack, which killed at least 52 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
